Wire-fence tool.



No. 779,221. PATENTED 111113, 1905,

L.11.KBNNARD.,

WIRE FENCE TOL.

APPLICATION FILED HAY 7, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

l LEONIDAS H. KENNARD, OF RIVERSIDE, UTAH.

WIRE-FENCE TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 779,221, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed May '7, 1904. Serial No. 206,916.

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Be it known that I, LEoNIDAs H. KENNARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverside, in the county of Boxelder and State of Utah, have invented new and useful Improvements in WVire-Fence Tools,of which the following is a specification.

vThis invention relates to wire-fence tools, the object of the invention being to provide a hand implement by means of which a slack wire may be taken up and twisted, so as to render the same taut, or in the case of a broken wire the ends of the wire may be engaged by the implement and caused to overlap, after which they may be twisted together to form a new joint or union.

A further object of the invention is to provide a self-adjusting wire-holding tongue embodying a plurality of wire-engaging portions adapted to hold the slack portion of the wire being operated upon, so as to facilitate the work of the lugs or jaws in tightening and twisting the wire. rIhe implement also embodies means for enabling the operator to carry the broken ends of a wire past each other, so as to overlap and adapt suchends to be wrapped around each other without bend- Y ing or crimping the wire at the places where it is engaged by the implement. rIhe implement also embodies means for cutting a fence or other wire whenever suoli operation is necessary.

With the above and other objects in view, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as herein fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a wire-fence tool embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged inner face view of a portion of one of the members of the tool, showing the manner of mounting the wire-grips and dogs. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view of one of the wire-holding tongues.

Like reference numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, l and 2 designate a pair of pivotally-connected members of any size, each of which is provided with a handle 3 of any suitable length to give the requisite leverage, said members being pivotally connected at 4, at which point said members are provided upon their inner adjacent faces with semicircular bosses 5 and semicircular recesses or seats 6, between which is arranged the disk-shaped base 7 of a wireslack-holding tongue 8, said tongue being held in place and adapted to adjust itself by means of the pivot 4, which extends through the members l and 2 and also through the boss 5 and the disk-shaped base 7 of the slack-holding tongue, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

The tongue 8 may be of any suitable length and is provided with a plurality of hooks 9, the extremities or bills of which project toward the pivot 4, so that a slack wire having' portions engaged by grooved lugs hereinafter described may be engaged under one or the other of the hooks 9 for holding the slack and adapting the implement to form a loop and twist in the slack portion of the wire. Any desired number of hooks 9 may be employed.

Each of the members 1 and 2 is provided at its outer end with a dog 10, which is pivotally connected at l1 to said member and provided with a roughened or corrugated wiregripping face 12, which works opposite the wire-engaging shoulder or face 13 of a lug 14, rigidly connected to or formed integrally with the member. The dog I() is also provided on its inner face with a wire-receiving notch 12 to facilitate the introduction of the extremity of the broken end of a wire between the dog and lug, a similar notch 12b being formed in the lug 14. The disposition of the lug and dog on one member is just the reverse of the arrangement on the other member, so that the ends of the wire coming from opposite directionsmay correspondingly be gripped by the lugs, the ends of the wire passing between the dogs and the lugs.

On the opposite side of the pivot 4 from the dogs IO the members l and 2 are recessed, as shown at I5, and connected with each mem- `ber and arranged in such recess is a wiregrip 16, pivotally mounted at 17 and provided with a projecting handle portion 18. The grip 16 is also provided with a roughened or serrated face 19, which works opposite a shoulder 2O on the member with which the gripis connected, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.' Each member is also provided with a wirereceiving hole 21, through which the hooked extremity of a wire may be engaged in the operation of stretching the wire preparatory to joining the same or fastening the same to a fence-post, for example. By means of the grips 16 the ends of a broken wire may without bending or crimping the same be gripped, and by vibrating the handles Sthe said ends may be carried by each other and caused to overlap, after which the ends may be wrapped around each other or otherwise secured.

The members 1 and 2 are further provided in opposite edges with notches 22, adapted to receive a wire and enable the same to be cut or severed by properly manipulating the handles 3.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that both ends of a broken wire may be gripped, the wire drawn taut, and the ends fastened by twisting the same around each other, thus taking the slack out of the wire.

sides thereof may be engaged by the end dogs l mounted on each member upon opposite sides of its pivot-point, and a wire-holding tongue located between the members for the purpose specified. K

2. A wire-fence tool comprising' pivotallyconnected members each having on its outer end a wire-gripping device comprising a pivoted and notched dog and a notched lug, each member having on the opposite side of its pivot-point a wire-receiving hole, a notch, la recess and a wire-gripping device pivoted in the recess and provided with an operating` handle, and a wire-holding tongue pivotally mounted between the members and having a plurality of wire-engaging hooks.

ln testimony whereof l affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEONIDAS H. KENNARD. Witnesses:

JAS. T. PITT, DELBERT BOWERS. 

